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German 2

Grade Level: Elementary School

Subject: World Languages

Type: Electives

The adventure story continues to build upon the base of vocabulary and linguistic structures introduced in Elementary German 1. Interactive activities and increasingly challenging games continue to drive students toward a strong set of intermediate language skills. An integrated, game-based reward system keeps learners motivated and eager to progress. Communication expressions include a wider array of social greetings, introductions, simple commands, suggestions, questions, German folk songs, and enhanced storytelling. Vocabulary expands in the domains of animals, body parts, numbers, shapes, small objects, familial relationships, food, cooking, and new words useful for telling stories such as The Three Little Pigs and Chicken Little in German. Grammar adds more third-person present-tense verbs, direct and indirect articles, and the conjunction aber, and progresses toward new third-person plural present-tense forms, third-person past-tense verbs, additional prepositions, and expressions conveying understanding. Students are also exposed to the simple future tense in the third person. Cultural topics include cuisine, climate, geography, and history. (Available on Online School Platform only.)